A symposium highlighting the 60-year diplomatic relations and 45 years of the signing of the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation between Laos and Vietnam was held by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee’s Theory Council in Vientiane on August 29.

The Vietnam Petroleum Institute (VPI), a member of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam), has applied artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to quickly identify the presence of fractured granite basement, with an accuracy rate of over 80%, helping save exploration time and costs.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who is also Honorary President of the 10th-tenure Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC), on August 29 met with 80 delegates representing nearly 500 participants in the 11th VRC National Congress for the 2022 - 2027 tenure.

VOV.VN - Vietnam are scheduled to play Palestine in a friendly game at Viet Tri Stadium in Phu Tho province in early September in the lead up to 2023 AFC U20 Asian Cup qualification.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is resolved to meet the goal of achieving zero net emissions by 2050 as committed at the 26th UN Conference on Climate Change (COP26), National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue told visiting COP26 President Alok Sharma in Hanoi on August 29.

VOV.VN - Vietnam hopes it will soon get financial support and technical know-how from international development partner donors to realise its energy transition projects.

Leaders and the business community of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province expressed their readiness to welcome Vietnamese enterprises to explore cooperation opportunities as well as strengthen relations between the countries.

VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of US$3.96 billion over the first eight months of the year, with the total import and export turnover of goods rising by 15.5% year on year to US$497.64 billion, according to figures given by the General Statistics Office (GSO).

VOV.VN - Vietnamese exports to the Netherlands during the opening seven months of the year surged by 31.6% year on year to US$5.95 billion, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

The 6th congress in the 2022 – 2027 tenure of the Vietnam – Cuba Friendship Association’s Hanoi chapter (VCFA Hanoi) has held in Hanoi, electing a 30-member executive board.